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Good work, thanks for the follow up!

Mobile car detailing. Have someone come out the week before Xmas and do the works on Dad's car or truck.

Tears of the Kingdom and Minecraft would be important to save for their infinite playability due to their physics and craft engines. Final Fantasy 6 for story. Stellaris so people could have a competitive, chess-like monster to wrap their mind around. And Bonk for TurboGrafx16 so everyone could know that game design just doesn't happen overnight.

8 finished episodes sitting in the can was really odd for the time. I would expect that production would be about 4 finished episodes ahead for a weekly show, and that is generous. But 8? I wonder if they finished the episodes after cancelation back then or if they did it recently.

https://www.owenscorning.com/en-us/insulation/commercial/enclosure/below-grade-under-slab-foamular-xps-insulation

I'd remove the existing wood, grade the soil flat and compact it. I'd then put down 2 in foam board (like in the link above) to decouple the flooring from the Earth. I would pour concrete to match the subfloor in the rest of the basement, but you don't have to. You can go back with a pressure treated subfloor product on top of the foam, etc.

A few things to keep in mind would be making sure that you get the right height of the soil so that you have the finished flooring height you desire. Also, all this work assumes you are maintaining access to that clean out. Good luck.

Where are you building? I'm assuming this is the basement or the ground floor. What is the rest of the subfloor on that level?

Wood resting on dirt is a big no, so that is an obvious red flag. Whatever floor you put in, I'd preserve your access to that clean out. Once you answer my Qs above, I can help give you a recommendation.

I canceled my subscription after the most recent price hike. Disney pulled off of YouTube TV a few weeks ago, though, so no ESPN. If you want to watch college football, you have to subscribe to their service, which I imagine would lead to a surge in subscribers.

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DINO? LINO? One of those is correct.

Nolan's Batman film repeated a line that didn't land with me at the time but I have since understood: "it's not who you are, it's what you do that defines you."

At the time, I thought myself a temporarily embarrassed progressive, thinking all these good thoughts and waiting for my sleeper-cell handler to activate me. I'm a good person, I am ready to do good when the need arises, as long as I have nothing else scheduled that day.

But the malaise of the socially progressive 90s lulled me (and other Gen Xers) into a false optimism that things were just going to get better on their own. Our brains were also cooked by decades of deregulation propaganda. And TVs were getting bigger and cheaper, so who were we to complain?

Weiss is the next generation of this detached ideology. She's been simmering in absurdism and pageantry so long that I don't think she has a handle on what she really wants to do. I'm not excusing her behavior, but I can't devine a coherent platform for her. I'm not sure any of her contemporaries actually have one, either. Just for the grift? It doesn't make them less dangerous, but hopefully it makes them less intimidating for those of us who have felt the tap on the shoulder to enlist.

In conclusion, she sucks, she says inane things. Don't be surprised but also don't roll your eyes and move on. Find what you can do, no matter how small, and do it. You will instantly be steps ahead of the performative competition.

I just heard about this on a podcast. The hosts and guest were giggling about "Mr Hands" and didn't go into any specifics, but I got that they were talking about a large penis. Now I know just how large, thanks!

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Twoers are rare, but I'll take it!

I don't remember this quote, so I went digging and I can't find this in the show. Anyone have a link?